(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said they want to realize the
vision of“Century of Türkiye” together with the teachers of the
country, trend reports citing hurriyet daily news .
“We will leave a more prosperous country to our children by
making the next period the Century of Türkiye,” Erdoğan said on
Nov. 24 addressing teachers from 81 provinces of the country on the
occasion of the Teachers Day.
The“Century of Türkiye” is a new series of programs, projects
and targets for development announced by President Erdoğan as the
country prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2023.
The president pointed at that fact that the government allocated
the biggest share of the budget for education.
“The budget allocated to education was 7.5 billion Turkish Liras
20 years ago. We have determined our education budget for the next
year as 651 billion liras,” he stated.
The teachers are also the architects of a person's character,
Erdogan said and added,“As Türkiye grew, we considered it our duty
to reflect this to our teachers above all else.”
Earlier Türkiye had schools with 120-person classrooms, now the
number has dropped to 20, he said.
“We have saved our schools from neglect and equipped them with
the most modern facilities in every field. We have not neglected
our teachers either. We strengthened our education army by
appointing a total of 750,000 new teachers. We have appointed 75 of
the 100 teachers currently on duty,” Erdogan stated.
The government has designed every reform and every decision
regarding education by carefully calculating the pros and cons as a
result of long consultations, Erdogan said noting that they had
created the“Teaching Profession Law” as a result of this
approach.
A total of 422,368 teachers were successful in the specialist
teacher exam and a total of 516,974 teachers earned the right to
become specialist teachers, the president said.
While 66,422 teachers were successful in the head teacher exam,
257 specialist teachers were exempted from the exam because they
completed their doctorate, he said adding that including the
exempted, 66,679 expert teachers earned the right to become head
teachers.